We are members of a range of research centres and groups within the university:

International Security and Global Order

The research group brings together researchers whose work addresses the changing character of security and the shifting foundations of international order. Its core focus is the study of how states, international organisations, and non-state actors manage threats and pursue order in conditions of uncertainty, contestation, fragmentation, and rapid technological change.

Creative and Participatory Methods

The research group brings together inter-disciplinary social researchers, utilising critical, intersectional, emancipatory perspectives to explore creative and participatory methodologies in social research. Creative and participatory forms of research are vital tools in exploring ideas that traditional methodologies cannot access, as well as voices and perspectives typically overlooked within positivist, hypothetico-deductive epistemologies. From a critical, emancipatory starting point the group seeks to explore the radical, transformative possibilities associated with research, arts-based research, sensory and embodies forms of research, research using (new) technologies, biographical and narrative methodologies, mobile/walking methodologies, creative writing in research, visual research, ‘mess’ and mistakes in research, drawing/mapping methodologies, film in social research and more.

Science, Technology and Regulation

This faculty-wide, multi-disciplinary research theme …

Abolitionist Research Group

The core focus of the group is the study and discussion of abolitionist theory and praxis. We are operating with an expansive definition of abolition; rather than a particular theory, program, or practice, this group will be broadly inclusive of systems of thought and practice that recognize that violence and harm are much larger than criminal acts. Structural forms of violence such as houselessness, food insecurity, financial precarity, ecological/climate breakdown, racism, and hierarchies of gender, sexuality, and (dis)ability affect community health and safety as much, if not more, than crime. At the same time, this expansive view of abolition posits it not as a negative vision of tearing down what currently exists, but a positive vision of fostering the kinds of communities with full access to physical and mental healthcare, education, housing, employment, and other such social interventions that make criminal predation less likely in the first place. Ultimately, while theories of abolition share a central concern with criminology as a field, namely how safe communities are created, structured, and maintained, abolitionist thought pushes us to reconceptualize and think beyond formal criminal legal systems.​